Your Privacy is Our Priority



Rugser Rugs Website Privacy Policy


Effective Date: December 23th, 2019

Welcome to the Rugser.com website. Please review this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use carefully because they govern your access to and use of the website as well as any services we may provide you through the website. This Policy and these Terms form a contract between us. By using any of our services, you agree that any information that we collect from or about you through our services, including personal information, anonymous information, and aggregate information, will be handled as described in this Privacy Policy. Your use of our services and any dispute over privacy is subject to this Privacy Policy and any other applicable agreements between you and Rugser.com, such as our Terms of Use, including any applicable limitations on damages and the resolution of disputes.


Information We Collect

In order to serve you better, Rugser.com collects information about you directly from you, from third parties, and automatically through your use of our services. We may combine information collected from or about you from these various sources. When you create an account, sign up to be notified of special deals like discounts and exclusive offers, enter a contest or promotion on our website. An account is created when you do one of the following things: make a purchase on our website, create a wish list on our website, or register for an account on our website, or enter certain Rugser.com sweepstakes or contests. We will collect your name, email address, and other information necessary for your participation in the promotion. If you purchase a product or service, we will additionally ask you for your billing address, shipping address, telephone number, and payment card information. We may also collect information about you from third parties. For example, if your friend refers you to our services, then we may collect information such as your email address from your friend. We automatically collect information about you through your use of our services, including, without limitation your IP address, location, browser type, domain name, the website that led you to our services, the website to which you go after leaving our services, the dates and times you access our services, and the links you click and your other activities within the services. Please see our Cookies and Other Tracking Mechanisms section below for more information. We may combine information we collect automatically with information we collect directly from or from third parties. Your information is used to process your orders and personalize your shopping experience on Rugser, for internal purposes and to comply with any legal requirements. By storing your personal information on a secure server, Rugser is able to shorten your checkout process and allow you to check your order status online.



We invite you to post content on our services, including your ratings, reviews, comments, and any other information that you would like to be available on our services. If you post content to our services, all of the information that you post will be publicly available. If you post your own content on our services, your posting, as well as your name, city/state, such information from being used in a manner that may violate this Privacy Policy, the law, or your personal privacy.


How We Use Your Information

We may use your information, including personal information and user content, for the following purposes:

Providing and Improving Our Services. To provide and maintain our Services; to improve our Services; to develop new features, products, or services; to perform technical operations, such as updating software; and for other customer service and support purposes.

Marketing and Communications. To communicate with you about your account and use of our services, including sending you product updates; to respond to your inquiries; to provide you with news and newsletters, special offers, promotions, and other information we think may interest you about our and our affiliate brands’ products; and for other informational, marketing, or promotional purposes. If you register to become a member of Rugser.com, we may send you marketing emails. Our communications with you may include communications via email or phone. Please see our section regarding Your Choices for more information about how to change your communications preferences.

Research and Analytics. To analyze how you interact with our Services; to monitor and analyze usage and activity trends; and for other research, analytical, and statistical purposes.

Protecting Rights and Interests. To protect the safety, rights, property, or security of Rugser, the services, any third party, or the general public; to detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security, or technical issues; to prevent or stop the activity which Rugser, in its sole discretion, may consider to be, or to pose a risk of being, an illegal, unethical, or legally actionable activity; to use as evidence in litigation, and to enforce this Privacy Policy or our Terms of Use.

Legal Compliance. To comply with applicable legal or regulatory obligations, including as part of a judicial proceeding; to respond to a subpoena, warrant, court order, or other legal processes; or as part of an investigation or request, whether formal or informal, from law enforcement or a governmental authority. Promotions. To administer promotions that we sponsor, such as sweepstakes or contests, including communicating with you regarding your participation in the promotion, and notifying you in the event that you win a prize.


How We Disclose Your Information

We may disclose your information, including personal information and user content, as described to you at the time of collection or disclosure or as follows: Rugser Users. We may disclose your information to other Rugser users. For example, if you post a review to our Site, we will display your review and other information to all visitors to our Site. Affiliates. We may disclose your information to current or future affiliates or subsidiaries for research, marketing, and other purposes consistent with this Privacy Policy.
Service Providers. We may disclose your information to our vendors, service providers, agents, or others who perform functions on our behalf. For example, we may disclose your information to third-party service providers to process payments on our behalf. Other Unaffiliated Third Parties. We may disclose your information to third parties, including so that those third parties may send marketing information to you. Business Transfers. We may disclose your information to another entity in connection with, including during negotiations of, an acquisition or merger, sale or transfer of a business unit or assets, bankruptcy proceeding, or as part of any other similar business transfer.
Protecting Rights and Interests. We may disclose your information to protect the safety, rights, property, or security of Rugser, the services, any third party, or the general public; to detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security, or technical issues; to prevent or stop the activity which Rugser, in its sole discretion, may consider to be, or to pose a risk of being, an illegal, unethical, or legally actionable activity; to use as evidence in litigation; and to enforce this Privacy Policy, our Terms of Use, or the applicable official promotion rules for any promotion that we sponsor. Legal Compliance. We may disclose your information to comply with applicable legal or regulatory obligations, including as part of a judicial proceeding; in response to a subpoena, warrant, court order, or other legal processes; or as part of an investigation or request, whether formal or informal, from law enforcement or a government official. Aggregate and De-Identified Information. We may disclose aggregate, anonymous, or de-identified information about users for marketing, advertising, research, compliance, or other purposes.


Cookies and Other Tracking Mechanisms

We and our service providers use cookies and other tracking mechanisms to track information about your use of our Services. We or our service providers may combine this information with other information, including personal information, we collect about you. We work with third parties that collect information across various channels, including offline and online, for purposes of delivering more relevant advertising to you. These third parties may place or recognize a cookie on your computer, device, or directly in our emails/communications, and we may share personal information with them if you have submitted such information to us, such as your name, postal address, email address, or device ID. These third parties also may link the nonpersonal information we share with them to the cookie stored on your browser or device, and they may collect information such as your IP address, browser or operating system type and version, and demographic or inferred-interest information. They use this information to recognize you across different channels and platforms over time for advertising, analytics, attribution, and reporting purposes. To learn more about interest-based advertising in general and to opt-out, please visit http://www.aboutads.info/choices. To opt-out of the use of your mobile device ID for targeted advertising, please see http://www.aboutads.info/appchoices. Cookies. Cookies are alphanumeric identifiers that we transfer to your computer’s hard drive through your web browser for record-keeping purposes. Some cookies allow us to make it easier for you to navigate our Services, while others are used to enable a faster log-in process or to allow us to track your activities while using our Services. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but if you prefer, you can edit your browser options to block them in the future. The Help portion of the toolbar on most browsers will tell you how to prevent your computer from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie, or how to disable cookies altogether. Visitors to our Services who disable cookies will be able to browse certain areas of the Services, but some features may not function (e.g., you may not be able to stay logged into your account). Clear GIFs, Pixel Tags, and Other Technologies. Clear GIFs are tiny graphics with a unique identifier, similar in function to cookies. In contrast to cookies, which are stored on your computer’s hard drive, clear GIFs are embedded invisibly on web pages. We may use clear GIFs (also referred to as web beacons, web bugs or pixel tags), in connection with our Services to, among other things, track the activities users of our Services, help us manage content, and compile statistics about usage of our Services. We and our third-party service providers also use clear GIFs in HTML emails to our customers, to help us track email response rates, identify when our emails are viewed, and track whether our emails are forwarded.


Third-Party Analytics

We may use third-party analytics companies, such as Google Analytics, to evaluate the use of our Services. We or our service providers use these tools to help us understand the use of and to improve, our Services, performance, and user experiences. These entities may use cookies and other tracking technologies, such as web beacons or local storage objects (LSOs), to perform their services.


Interest-Based Advertising

We may use third parties such as network advertisers to serve advertisements on our Services and on third-party websites or other media (e.g., social networking platforms). This enables us and these third parties to target advertisements to you for products and services in which you might be interested. We may provide these third-party advertisers with information, including personal information, about you. Users in the United States may opt out of many third-party ad networks. For example, you may go to the Digital Advertising Alliance (“DAA”) Consumer Choice Page for information about opting out of interest-based advertising and your choices regarding having the information used by DAA companies. You may also go to the Network Advertising Initiative (“NAI”) Consumer Opt-Out Page for information about opting out of interest-based advertising and your choices regarding having the information used by NAI members. Opting out from one or more companies listed on the DAA Consumer Choice Page or the NAI Consumer Opt-Out Page will opt you out from those companies’ delivery of interest-based content or ads to you, but it does not mean you will no longer receive any advertising through our Services or on other websites or applications. You may continue to receive advertisements, for example, based on the particular website that you are viewing (i.e., contextually based ads). Also, if your browsers are configured to reject cookies when you opt-out on the DAA or NAI websites, your opt-out may not be effective. Additional information is available on the DAA’s website at www.aboutads.info or the NAI’s website at www.networkadvertising.org.


Do Not Track Disclosure

Our services do not respond to Do Not Track signals. You may, however, disable certain tracking as discussed in the Cookies and Other Tracking Mechanisms section above (e.g., by disabling cookies). You also may opt out of targeted advertising by following the instructions in the Interest-Based Advertising section above.


Third-Party Links

Our services may contain links to third-party websites and applications. Any access to and use of such linked websites and applications are not governed by this Privacy Policy but instead are governed by the privacy policies of those third parties. We are not responsible for the information practices of such third-party websites or applications.


Security

We have taken steps to help protect the personal information we collect. However, no data security measures can guarantee 100% security. You should take steps to protect against unauthorized access to your device and account by, among other things, choosing a robust password that nobody else knows or can easily guess and keeping your log-in and password private. We are not responsible for any lost, stolen, or compromised passwords or for any activity on your account via unauthorized password activity.


Your Choices

You may access, modify, or delete the personal information that you have provided to us by logging into your account settings or emailing us at office@Rugser.com with what you would like updated. Please note that we may retain certain information about you as required by law or as permitted by law for legitimate business purposes. For example, if you request that we delete your information but we believe that you have violated our Terms of Use we may retain information about you in order to attempt to resolve the issue before deleting it.

We may send periodic promotional emails to you. You may opt-out of such communications by following the opt-out instructions contained in the email or emailing us at hello@Rugser.com. Please note that it may take up to ten (10) business days for us to process opt-out requests. If you opt out of receiving emails about recommendations or other information we think may interest you, we may still send you emails about your account or any services you have requested or received from us.


Your California Privacy Rights

If you are a California resident then under Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.83 you may request and obtain from us once a year, free of charge, information about the personal information (if any) we disclosed to third parties for direct marketing purposes in the preceding calendar year. If you are a California resident and would like to make such a request, please submit your request in writing to us at the contact information provided below. In your request, please attest to the fact that you are a California resident and provide a current California address for your response.


Children

You must be at least eighteen (18) years of age to use our services. Our services are not targeted to children under thirteen (13) years of age and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If we discover that a child under 13 has provided us with personal information, we will promptly delete such personal information from our systems.


Contact Us

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or the privacy aspects of our services, please contact us at hello@Rugser.com.


Changes to this Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy is current as of the Effective Date set forth above. We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time, so please be sure to check back periodically. We will post any changes, including any material changes, to this Privacy Policy on our Site.